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Craig Ferguson is headed for his farewell episode of "The Late Late Show" on CBS on Dec. 19. And his final guest knows a thing or two about late-night send-offs -- he's had two of them himself. Former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno will be Ferguson's guest on the final show. Leno, who ended his run on "The Tonight Show" in 2009, returned to the show in 2010 and then signed off again (for good) in 2014, has a new series in the works at CNBC. Tentatively titled "Jay Leno's Garage," the show will focus on the comedian's love of cars. Leno is currently making the late-night talk show rounds. He is set to return to "The...

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Craig Ferguson is headed for his farewell episode of "The Late Late Show" on CBS on Dec. 19. And his final guest knows a thing or two about late-night send-offs -- he's had two of them himself.
Former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno will...

WASHINGTON — For a moment there, it seemed as if the red-carpet procession was going to be a serious affair — not quite what you'd expect at a gathering of some of comedy's heaviest hitters for an evening of mirth at the ceremony for the Mark Twain...

If Jimmy Fallon really wants to grab Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attention when he brings "The Tonight Show" to Chicago for another mutual ear-licking session, Jimmy might ask this:
When will Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr. show up in Chicago to...

Comedian Joan Rivers, who suffered cardiac arrest last week, has been moved out of an intensive care unit in a New York hospital and into a private room, her daughter Melissa Rivers said on Wednesday.
Rivers, 81, is now "being...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today called on Chicagoans to push Jimmy Fallon to bring "The Tonight Show" to Chicago following an on-air pledge the TV funnyman made to the mayor to do so if the city's kids read more than 2.4 million books this summer.
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For some in Chicago, the anointing of Stephen Colbert as the successor to David Letterman this month was a watershed, greatly-to-be-savored moment of total establishment dominance by the Chicago comedy school — as propagated by such venerable institutions...

Drew Barrymore has welcomed a second baby girl, but judging from the newborn's name, we're wondering if she really wanted a boy...
The "Blended" star and husband Will Kopelman welcomed Frankie Barrymore Kopelman on Tuesday, her rep confirmed to...

David Letterman, longtime host of television's "The Late Show" on CBS, will retire from the network in 2015, when his current contract expires.
He discussed his plans to leave during the taping of his show on Thursday. Letterman representatives...

There was something missing as Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke on the Far Northwest Side in March to offer an explanation on what City Hall was doing about the roads after a winter that "left nothing but potholes and pockmarks throughout the city of...

A more ponderous proposition there is not than a scholarly analysis of what comedy is and why we laugh at something. Take Arthur Schopenhauer — please. Humor, Schopenhauer writes, can be "traced to a syllogism in the first figure with an undisputed...

On a sunny day in the Burbank hills, Jay Leno's canary yellow McLaren supercar shatters the silence.
Wedged into the cockpit of the 903-horsepower hybrid P1, Leno darts around a curve and leans into the throttle. With the midday roads free of traffic,...

It wasn't long ago that Joan Rivers' career seemed to be — as she might have put it, ever so delicately — in the toilet. Banned for decades from "The Tonight Show," younger insult comics like Kathy Griffin and Lisa Lampanelli breathing down...

Chelsea Handler wants, in essence, to become the "House of Cards" of late-night television. "There is no real appointment viewing anymore," the comedian said in an interview with the Tribune this week. (She will be taping a TV...

Comedian Joan Rivers remained on life support on Tuesday after being hospitalized in serious condition due to cardiac arrest last week, her daughter Melissa said.Rivers, 81, was hospitalized in New York after she stopped breathing during outpatient...

Comedian Joan Rivers' condition remains serious, her daughter Melissa Rivers said in a statement on Friday, after the television personality was hospitalized following a cardiac arrest.Rivers, 81, stopped breathing during a vocal cord procedure at a New...

Carissa Hinz had just graduated from art school last month and was volunteering at a local art gallery in Bridgeport Friday night when she was hit by a car, according to her friends.
Hinz was hit at 32nd Place and Morgan Street just before midnight and...

In the early 1980s, actor James Stewart read a sweet poem about his dead dog, Beau, on "The Tonight Show." It made Johnny Carson cry. That little video segment pops up from time to time on Facebook. I found myself clicking on it again the...

In his occasionally salacious but richly layered biography of Johnny Carson, Henry Bushkin (Carson's longtime lawyer, compadre and acolyte) describes a party in 1979, at the home of Gina and Henry Mancini. The guests included Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly,...